Jan 7, 2012

Just a thought from last years mass killing. Autopsies showed the birds died from blunt force trauma. That is the equivalent of being hit with a baseball bat. By the thousands.

For one small Arkansas town, New Year's Eve 2010 brought a media frenzy and unwelcome prophesies of the apocalypse. The mysterious deaths of 5000 blackbirds, which plummeted from the night sky, led to 12 months of intrigue and a National Geographic documentary. As December 31, 2011 approached, the residents of Beebe were understandably apprehensive - then it started happening again. Just as the town's New Year's Eve parties were getting under way, birds began falling out of the sky. Police said calls started soon after 7pm, and a local TV station reported that scores of birds were raining down. Jacob Landrum told Arkansas' KTHV television he had been driving through the middle of town towards the Church of Christ when the falling birds startled him. "The birds were all over the parking lot and in the road on the way here," he said.

"It's kind of a strange thing two years in a row." One of the favoured theories from last year's avian catastrophe centred on fireworks. Some animal behaviourists suggested the loud noises and bright lights of several large displays marking the new year may have startled and disoriented the birds. As soon as reports came in that birds were plummeting to their deaths once again, Beebe police department imposed an impromptu ban on fireworks. The six or seven officers on duty leapt into their patrol cars and toured the town interrupting parties and looking for Catherine wheels and rockets. "They just had to stop people shooting any more off," said Jeremy Weeks, a police officer in Beebe, although he confessed it was unclear whether the pyrotechnic ban had helped. "I have absolutely no idea why it happened again," he said. "I saw dozens of them on the ground as I was driving into work."

Cleaning up dead blackbirds in Beebe Arkansas

Paul Begley, a pastor at the Community Gospel Bapist Church in Indiana, had his own theory. "I was doing a live broadcast talking about bible prophecy and the end of the world," he said. "And the birds started falling out of the sky again. Where's (horror blockbuster writer) Stephen King? He can't even write a script like this, this is God. "It's not fireworks. If that was the case, on the Fourth of July every bird would fall out of the sky." It is unknown exactly how many birds died this year as the clean-up operation is still under way, but Horace Taylor, Beebe's animal control officer, said his office had picked up at least 80 dead blackbirds. Post-mortem examinations carried out by the Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission last year revealed "acute physical trauma" in samples of the dead blackbirds, which suggests they were killed on impact with the ground rather than dying in mid-air. No sign of poison or disease was found as theories continue to abound on the mass fatality events. Kevin McKinney, a Beebe resident, claimed something else must have been happening on Saturday night. "Fireworks going off all night and all day - no problems!" he told KTHV. "But when the birds started dying, I had my compass out: it went crazy, spinning and unable to find north."

The greatest event in history was the coming of Jesus Christ into the world to live and to die for mankind. The next greatest event was the going forth of the church to embody the life of Christ and to spread the knowledge of His salvation through the earth.

The Upper Room at Pentecost

That the church did not perish was due entirely to the miraculous element within her. That element was supplied by the Holy Spirit who came at Pentecost to empower her for her task. The Church began in power, moved in power, and moved just as long as she had power. When she no longer had power she dug in for safety and sought to conserve her gains. But her blessings were like the manna: when they tried to keep it overnight, it bred worms and stank. So we have had monasticism, scholasticism, institutionalism; and they have all been indicative of the same thing: absence of spiritual power.

If we are to advance, the Church must have power; she must become formidable, a moral force to be reckoned with, if she would regain her lost position of spiritual ascendancy and make her message the revolutionizing, conquering thing it once was:

- We need spiritual energy of sufficient voltage to produce great saints once again.

- We need a spiritual unction that will give a heavenly unction to our worship, that will make our meeting places sweet with the Divine Presence.

- We need that divine afflatus which moves the heart and persuades the hearer to repent and believe in Jesus Christ. It is not eloquence; it is not logic; it is not an argument. It is more penetrating than thought, more disconcerting than conscience, more convincing than reason. It is the subtle wonder that follows anointed preaching, a mysterious operation of spirit on spirit. (A.W. Tozer in Paths To Power)

The cross would not be a cross to us if it destroyed in us only the unreal and artificial. It is when it goes on to slay the best in us that its cruel sharpness is felt. (From Born After Midnight)

We must do something about the cross, and one of two things only we can do - flee it or die upon it. (From The Root Of The Righteous)

Our cross will be determined by whatever pain and suffering and trouble which will yet come to us because of our obedience to the will of God. (From I Talk Back To The Devil)

Every advance that we make for God and for His cause must be made at our inconvenience. If it does not inconvenience us at all, there is no cross in it! If we have been able to reduce spirituality to a smooth pattern and it costs us nothing - no disturbance, no bother and no element of sacrifice in it - we are not getting anywhere with God. (From I Talk Back To The Devil)

No one wants to die on a cross - until he comes to the place where he is desperate for the highest will of God in serving Jesus Christ. (From I Talk Back To The Devil)

In coming to Christ we do not bring our old life up onto a higher plane; we leave it at the cross. The corn of wheat must fall into the ground and die. (From Man: The Dwelling Place Of God)

The pain of the cross means that we are in the way. (From That Incredible Christian)

Julian of Norwich is the patron of the Order named after her. Living in Norwich, England in the 14th and early 15th century, Julian spent much of her life as an anchorite, that is, as a vowed religious living by herself in a small room attached to a parish church. Beyond this, little is actually known about Dame Julian, as she was called.

What is known about her, and what makes her the inspiration for the Order of Julian, is her remarkable book, The Revelations of Divine Love. The Revelations are a description of a series of visions which opened Julian to the depths of God's unconditioned love for us in Jesus Christ. They are noted for their spiritual depth and theological courage, for their literary elegance and the spirit of joy and humility that permeates them.

After being nearly forgotten for 600 years, Julian's insights and gentle wisdom have now made her justly famous. In a medieval church which emphasized God's condemning wrath, Julian wrote, 'There is no wrath in God….It is the most impossible thing that can be that God would be angry, for wrath and friendship are two opposites.' Just as striking and as relevant to the 21st century is Julian's perception of the feminine element in God. 'As truly as God is our Father,' Julian wrote, 'so truly God is our Mother.' The Episcopal Church celebrates her feast every 8th of May.

As Julian prayed often in silence, so the Order gives high priority to 'still prayer' and intercession for all in need. As the three windows of Julian's anchorhold cell opened, one to the altar, one to the room of her lay sisters, and one to the public lane, so the life of the Order looks, first to the worship of God, secondly to the support and strength of the wider community of the Order-our Oblates and Associates-and thirdly to the service of others.

Brother Lawrence - (ca. 1614 -1691), Carmelite lay brother

Brother Lawrence was born Nicholas Herman in the region of Lorraine, located in modern day eastern France. He received a revelation of the providence and power of God at the age of 18, but it would be another six years before he joined the Discalced Carmelite Prior in Paris. In this intervening period he fought in the Thirty Years' War and later served as a valet.

Nicholas entered the priory in Paris as a lay brother, not having the education necessary to become a cleric, and took the religious name, "Lawrence of the Resurrection". He spent almost all of the rest of his life within the walls of the priory, working in the kitchen for most of his life and as a repairer of sandals in his later years.

Yet despite, or perhaps because of, his somewhat lowly position, his character attracted many to him. He was known for his profound peace and many came to seek spiritual guidance from him. The wisdom that he passed on to them, in conversations and in letters, would later become the basis for the book, The Practice of the Presence of God. This work was compiled after Brother Lawrence died by one of those whom he inspired, Father Joseph de Beaufort, later vicar general to the Archbishop of Paris. It became popular among Catholics and Protestants alike, with John Wesley and A. W. Tozer being among those who recommended it.

As a young man, Herman's poverty forced him into joining the army, and thus he was guaranteed meals and a small stipend. During this period, Herman had an experience that set him on a unique spiritual journey; it wasn't, characteristically, a supernatural vision, but a supernatural clarity into a common sight.

In the deep of winter, Herman looked at a barren tree, stripped of leaves and fruit, waiting silently and patiently for the sure hope of summer abundance. Gazing at the tree, Herman grasped for the first time the extravagance of God's grace and the unfailing sovereignty of divine providence. Like the tree, he himself was seemingly dead, but God had life waiting for him, and the turn of seasons would bring fullness. At that moment, he said, that leafless tree "first flashed in upon my soul the fact of God," and a love for God that never after ceased to burn. Sometime later, an injury forced his retirement from the army, and after a stint as a footman, he sought a place where he could suffer for his failures. He thus entered the Discalced Carmelite monastery in Paris as Brother Lawrence.

He was assigned to the monastery kitchen where, amidst the tedious chores of cooking and cleaning at the constant bidding of his superiors, he developed his rule of spirituality and work. In his Maxims, Lawrence writes, "Men invent means and methods of coming at God's love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it seems like a world of trouble to bring oneself into the consciousness of God's presence. Yet it might be so simple. Is it not quicker and easier just to do our common business wholly for the love of him?"

For Brother Lawrence, "common business," no matter how mundane or routine, was the medium of God's love. The issue was not the sacredness or worldly status of the task but the motivation behind it. "Nor is it needful that we should have great things to do. . . We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king. It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God."

Brother Lawrence retreated to a place in his heart where the love of God made every detail of his life of surpassing value. "I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world." Together, God and Brother Lawrence cooked meals, ran errands, scrubbed pots, and endured the scorn of the world.

He admitted that the path to this perfect union was not easy. He spent years disciplining his heart and mind to yield to God's presence. "As often as I could, I placed myself as a worshiper before him, fixing my mind upon his holy presence, recalling it when I found it wandering from him. This proved to be an exercise frequently painful, yet I persisted through all difficulties."

Only when he reconciled himself to the thought that this struggle and longing was his destiny did he find a new peace: his soul "had come to its own home and place of rest." There he spent the rest of his 80 years, dying in relative obscurity and pain and perfect joy. His papers were compiled sometime later into the Christian classic, "The Practice Of The Presence Of God", available in most book stores today.

I thought I would add to this article my own Florida viewpoint on this. I've seen at least 3 launches of the XR-37B, all between the spring and fall of 2011. It is taken up on the back of a military transport, released, then it engages the rockets to obtain orbit. The firing of the rockets is visible for about 5 to 10 seconds before it quickly dims. These can lift off from any military base as well as Cape Canaveral and the launch site on Wallops Island, Virginia. Two points to make in all of this.

First, the space program is officially going military, but it was always in control of the military. The only thing civilian about NASA was a few of it's scientists and contractors. There are many things that happened in the official NASA program that were never disclosed to the public. I hope to share some of those things in coming months.

The second point is that space has become militarized, a true battlefield, and not all of that is from satellites. For every project we hear about, like this one, there are probably five that no one has heard of, and few have seen. We should be aware of this because the Lord warned in the last days that there would be "fearful sights and great signs from heaven". (Luke 21:11)

The US Air Force's second mysterious mini-space shuttle, the X-37B, could be spying on China's space laboratory and the first piece of its space station, Tiangong-1.
Amateur space trackers told the British Interplanetary Society publication Spaceflight that the black-funded spaceplane seemed to be orbiting the Earth in tandem with Tiangong_1, or the Heavenly Palace, leading the magazine to speculate that its unknown mission is to spy on it
"Space-to-space surveillance is a whole new ball game made possible by a finessed group of sensors and sensor suites, which we think the X-37B may be using to maintain a close watch on China's nascent space station," Spaceflight editor Dr David Baker told the BBC.

America has refused to come clean on exactly what the X-37Bs are meant to be doing up there, but the line on the plane has always been that it's a test prototype of a reusable spacecraft that can carry experiments into and back from space.
According to the Air Force's fact sheet on the project, which was funded from the classified budget:

The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle is the newest and most advanced re-entry spacecraft. Based on NASA's X-37 design, the unmanned OTV is designed for vertical launch to low Earth orbit altitudes where it can perform long duration space technology experimentation and testing.
Upon command from the ground, the OTV autonomously re-enters the atmosphere, descends and lands horizontally on a runway.

As well as being winged for re-entry, the OTV also has a strong heat shield, both perfectly in tune with the (vaguely) stated purpose of the craft.
However since people don't even know how much the things cost, exactly where either one was headed and with what payload when they took off in April 2010 and March 2011 respectively, or for how long they're supposed to be up there, it's assumed the spacecraft have naturally been assigned some sort of clandestine military purpose.
The doomsayers in the Iranian media dubbed the X-37B a "secret space warplane" before the first one went up, adding that it was the first generation of US space Predator drones that would build up the US' space armada.
Slightly less alarmist is the hypothesis suggested by El Reg and others that the mini-space shuttle's purpose has something to do with spy satellites. That could be a spot of sat-napping - grabbing or disabling other countries' satellites while leaving the owners to assume some sort of space accident. Or it could be picking up their own eye-poppingly expensive sats for repair or recycling back at home.

January 6, 2012 – CHILE – This first came up in the news yesterday, but I thought it deserved its own spot. Lascar, one of the more active volcanoes of northern Chile, was placed on heightened alert status by the ONEMI (Chilean Emergency Management) on advice from the SERNAGEOMIN (Chilean Geologic Survey). The latest report from Lascar says that over 300 small earthquakes have occurred at the volcano in the last 26 hours, leading to an elevation of its status to Yellow – however, there have been no indications of increased fumarolic activity at the volcano. Lascar has the potential to produce a large eruptive column – the 1993 eruption sent ash as fall east as Buenos Aires – with pyroclastic flows that could reach nearby towns such as Talabre. The volcano has been through a number of cycles of significant explosive activity over its 43,000 year history. However, recent activity is mostly lava dome formation in the summit crater followed by crater collapse and vulcanian to plinian explosive eruptions such as the major eruption of April 1993. However, it also have the potential to produce small explosions that will only dust ash on the countryside surrounding the volcano as it has done at least 6 times in the last decade. ONEMI is preparing for possible evacuations for people near the volcano – mostly either miners in the area or tourists at San Pedro de Atacama. If anything does occur, there is a webcam pointed at Lascar to see the action.

There is a lot of discussion right now about the "end of the world", thanks in large part to the publication of the Mayan Long Count calendar. Let's give the Mayans some credit. They possessed an incredible mathematical and astronomical knowledge that gave them the most accurate calendar known in the pre-modern world. It consisted of three separate "clocks", and what everyone is concerned about is the ticking down to zero of the longest of those clocks on December 21, 2012.

I don't know if the Mayans clock is accurate in regards to what is being discussed. However, from the records we have, they did not believe this clock was predicting the end of the world. It was predicting the end of one period of time, or age. Even their living elders don't believe the world will end on December 21st. So lets get past the drama and get to the heart of the matter.

Quetzacoatl

This Mayan calendar was used to predict many events, including according to the historical records, the return of Quetzacoatl. Quetzacoatl was the founder/god of the Mayan people. While reading accounts of his character, one might be led to think this was a very good individual. However, Quetzacoatl is also known as the "feathered serpent", not a far cry from many of the descriptions for Satan. He also helped to establish the religion of the Mayans that would result in an untold number of human sacrifices. Suffice it to say, when Hernan Cortes sailed into Tenochtitlan on Nov. 8, 1519, the Mayans believed their god had returned, thanks in part to the Mayan calendar. What we know came with the Spanish was the destruction of the Mayans.

Hernan Cortes landing in Mexico

Whether the Mayan calendar is accurate in regard to the end of the age or not, we know the scriptures predict that the end of the age is coming. This is what the disciples specifically asked Jesus about in Matthew 24:3. "What shall be the sign of thy coming, and the end of the world?" The Greek word for world here is "aeon", meaning a period of time, not literally the end of the earth. Jesus then goes on to give the sequence of events that will be signs that the end of the age is near. So, do those signs fit our day and time?

The first prediction is the coming of "false christs", or those claiming to be the Messiah who are not (Matt. 24:5). We do have an ample number of these today, with the most famous being the Rev. Sun Myung Moon of the "Family Federation for World Peace and Unification", shortened to the Unification Church. The Rev. Moon has repeatedly stated he is the true Christ. He also has amassed an enormous church membership, estimated between a few hundred thousand up into the millions. He has become incredibly wealthy, thanks to the contributions of all his members. He has used the money to buy influence in high places. He routinely travels on speaking engagements with George Bush (Sr.), and has provided loans to none other than Jerry Falwell and Liberty University in Lynchburg Virginia.

Need we say more?

The Lord goes on to warn of wars and rumors of wars (Matt. 24:6). Considering in the last year we have witnessed war throughout most of Africa and the Middle East, as well as rumors of war coming between NATO and Syria, NATO and Iran, Russia and NATO, China and the U.S., China and India, India and Pakistan, North Korea and South Korea, China and Taiwan, well you see where this is going. So far we can safely say we are two for two.

Photo that helped change the direction of the Vietnam War

The next prophecy is nation to rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom, famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in diverse places (Matt. 24:7). We just spoke of nations rising against other nations, and we might be interested in statistics released saying one out of every six people on earth will go to bed hungry tonight. That's over 1 billion people. Numerous diseases are popping up, many created in labs, that have yet to wreak havoc on large populations. And the earthquakes in diverse places, how about every state in the union reporting earthquakes in the last year, along with numerous volcanic eruptions or disruptions from around the world. So, we could safely say we are in what Jesus called "the beginning of sorrows" (Matt. 24:8).

While it is not definitive that we are in the beginning of sorrows, all signs point that way at the moment. And after the beginning of sorrows? The great tribulation (crushing pressure) on all the world. Yet even when we come to the Battle in the Valley of Har Megiddo (Armegeddon), we aren't talking about the end of the earth, but the end of the age.

So, what we have prophetically is that things are about to go from bad to worse. This includes specifically the toppling of many nations, wars all over the world involving many powers, famine, sicknesses, and death tho one fourth of the world population (Rev. 6). Christians will be placed under intense tribulation/pressure. And those who overcome, will overcome by "the Blood of the Lamb, the word of their testimony: and because they loved not their lives unto death." (Rev. 12:11)

So it's not the end of the earth, just the end of this age. However, the end of the age is a really big deal. Roughly 2 billion people will not survive it. But Christians have a way out. Holding fast to the Blood of the Lamb, their testimony of that same Lamb of God, and being willing to lose their lives for their faith. Are you ready? If not, now is the day to get ready. We cannot stop what is coming. Ultimately, the Return of the King is good for all mankind anyway. Yet many will die or be killed, while others will be taken captive for their faith (Rev. 13:10). Prepare now spiritually. Study the scriptures. Take time for prayer. Actively seek to be filled with the Spirit. Above all, plead with the Lord to prepare you for what is coming. We can be great testimonies, if we are ready.

No matter what the outcome of the war in Europe may be, Totalitarianism has already won a complete victory in many American minds and conquered all of our intellectual life. You have helped it to win.

Perhaps it is your right to destroy civilization and bring dictatorship to America, but not unless you understand fully what you are doing.

But the tragedy of today is that you — who are responsible for the coming Totalitarian dictatorship of America — you do not know your own responsibility. You would be the first to deny the active part you're playing…”

-Ayn Rand in a open letter entitled, “To All Fifth Columnists,“ in 1941

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Just another day in a Soviet gulag

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Totalitarianism has already conquered America. What happens in the next few years is simply the externalization of a battle that has already been won in the mind of man. For over a century millions of American’s have been put into a drug-like state through materialism, television, film, music, ever-increasing dosages of sexual perversion, political theatre, false prophets in the church, drugs, social engineering and the mind-control-factories of public education. Martial Law, detention camps and rule by military force are simply the by-products of an Armageddon-style war for the mind that has been won by those who arrogantly call themselves “the scientific elite.” But, most people do not understand the Luciferian and spiritual dimension of this warfare that was planned centuries ago.

This war is not a new war; it is a mind control war that goes back to ancient Babylon and the secret occult religions. The primary military theatre of this war is in the human mind. Beginning in 1917 when the father of modern public education came back from Communist Russia, the mass brainwashing and mind control war started with Orwellian through control in public education.

John Dewey - Humanist, Atheist and Sculptor of the American Public Education System

This was not hidden; Dewey and others came out publicly and stated the purpose of publication was to not educate but to indoctrinate through scientific social engineering. Despite the fact that Dewey and the Communist movement claim to atheists, the reality is that Karl Marx was a practicing Satanist. The Communist Manifesto that Marx wrote with Engels was simply a copy of the Illuminati Manifesto written in the late 1700’s. The six primary tenets of the Illuminati Manifesto are:

1- Abolition of Monarchy and Ordered Government
2- Abolition of Property
3- Abolition of Inheritance
4- Abolition of Patriotism
5- Abolition of Family
6- Abolition of Religion

These are also the exact same goals of the World Communist Movement. Look at America today and notice that every one of these areas is under attack or has been destroyed. This is a deliberate strategy and it ties directly in to harnessing Luciferian power and mind control because it severs all psychological and spiritual ties to God and the individual. The endgame is a microchipped planet of slaves who will serve the Illuminati elite.

This has not been a covert war in the traditional sense; most of it was announced in articles, speeches, books and through the media. Science fiction author and former head of British intelligence during World War I wrote, “The Open Conspiracy,” in 1928, which outlined a plan for global totalitarian state. In a June 16, 1928 article in the Illustrated London News, Wells’ good friend and fellow intellectual G. K. Chesterton reviewed the book and warned of the danger he saw in what Wells was saying about the "general tendency towards establishing a world control." Chesterton correctly perceived that Well’s call for world government would end up being a world dictatorship.

H.G. Wells - dreaming of a one world government

In 1940, H.G.Well’s published his book, “The New World Order” and revealed the battle plan. H.G. Wells, was far more than a leading intellectual, he was connected to occult secret societies. Unlike, American Marxists in academia and politics, Well’s believed the most effective method of Revolution was not with guns, camps and violent revolution. Wells understood that the most effective revolution could be achieved through the science of brainwashing and mind control. Wells wrote in “The New World Order,”…A Revolution need be neither an explosion nor a coup d'état. And the Revolution that lies before us now as the only hopeful alternative to chaos, either directly or after an interlude of world communism, is to be attained…” Well’s explained, “An altogether different type of Revolution may or may not be possible. No one can say that it is possible unless it is tried, but one can say with some assurance that unless it can be achieved the outlook for mankind for many generations at least is hopeless. The new Revolution aims essentially at a change in directive ideas. In its completeness it is an untried method.” Years later, after this new type of Revolution, that relied on social engineering and mind control was tested, Wells realized that scientific mind control is far more effective that troops, guns and camps.

“It depends for its success upon whether a sufficient number of minds can be brought to realize that the choice before us…” Aldous Huxley, a disciple of H.G. Wells and British Intelligence agent, came to Hollywood in the 1930’s to promote his ideas by writing screenplay’s that would be produced as feature films. In 1932 Huxley wrote a novel entitled, “Brave New World,” where he described a “scientific dictatorship: that was established not through armed troops and tyranny, but through drugs, sex and mind control. “There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.” Aldous Huxley.

Aldous Huxley and the now classic and popular "all seeing eye" pose

In a 1962 speech at UC Berkeley, Huxley spoke primarily of the ‘Ultimate Revolution’ that focuses on ‘behavioral controls’ of people: If you are going to control any population for any length of time, you must bring in an element of getting people to consent to what is happening to them. We are in process of developing a whole series of techniques, which will enable the controlling oligarchy – who have always existed and will presumably always exist – to get people to love their servitude.”

Huxley added, “I think there are going to be scientific dictatorships in many parts of the world. If you can get people to consent to the state of servitude – then you are likely to have a much more stable, a much more lasting society; much more easily controllable society than you would if you were relying wholly on clubs, and firing squads and concentration camps.”

Aldous Huxley began turning on many Hollywood celebrities, writers and powerful people on to the psychedelic drug mescaline. He wrote his famous book, “Heaven and Hell and the Doors of Perception,” which advocated the use of strong psychedelic drugs to travel into different dimensions and he promoted occult and mystical teachings. As I High School student in New York City, I read Huxley’s book and took mescaline not as a means to get “high,” but to travel through the doors of perception. At around this same time, Harvard Professor Timothy Leary was telling people to “tune in, turn on and drop out,” by ingesting an even-more powerful drug LSD.

In my search for the answers to life’s questions, I began taking LSD, practicing Eastern mysticism, saw the great white light and communicating with spirit guides, which today I am convinced were demons. My major at the University of Missouri was “Altered States of Consciousness” and filmmaking. Back then I did not understand the promotion of psychedelic drugs and the counter culture was a mind control war called MK ULTRA.

An unknown victim who caught in the hell that were the MK Ultra experiments by the CIA

In 1980, when I moved into Laurel Canyon and Lookout Mountain in the Hollywood Hills above Sunset Blvd. to produce a number science fiction films, I did not know that Aldous Huxley lived within walking distance of my house several decades earlier and that Timothy Leary was there at the same time I was there. I had hung out with Leary at the Electric Circus on St. Marx’s place in the East Village and we would run into him at exercise gyms.

What is interesting is that Laurel Canyon and Lookout Mountain was home to a lot of musicians, writers and other people who were allegedly involved in MK ULTRA experiments. Years after I lived there, I read that there was supposedly some kind secret MK ULTRA facility hidden up there.

I remember jogging up the mountain one day and walking through some trees I discovered a strange looking compound directly beneath the cliff I was standing on. It was a strange looking compound and at the time, I believed it to me the home of some kind of cult. If that was the rumored facility I will never know, because I was unable to find it again since there was only one small view of it hidden by the private property of people’s homes.

Laurel Canyon - romanticized by movie buffs, not such a nice place after all

The whole Lookout Mountain scene had no appeal to me because I had long ago left the “counter culture” and began intensively studying the Old and New Testament’s. There was no question that there was intense demonic activity in the Laurel Canyon and Lookout Mountain area. You can feel the presence of it in the air. But through my research, I began to realize the occult-Illuminati connections between psychedelic drugs and the MK ULTRA program which was developed by Nazi scientists who were practicing Satanists brought to America after World War II. This implied that certain rituals and drugs can open portals into another dimension and allow demonic entities to travel into our present reality, which is the secret component of the mind control wars.

Jan 5, 2012

It's quite a shame in this day how many in the churches judge others based on their pasts and randomly chosen moral codes. This is a very short trip through some major characters in Bible history who might not have been very welcome in churches today...

COULD THESE PEOPLE SERVE IN YOUR CHURCH?

Celebrating the Golden Calf - Nicolas Poussin

This man fell for the wife of one of his servants. He sent his servant to the front of a battle so he would be killed, and he could take the man’s wife as his own. This was necessary because she had become pregnant in this adulterous affair. Could this man serve in your church? (2 Sam. 11)

This man, ruler of a great kingdom that God had richly blessed, proceeded to marry hundreds of wives and concubines, and place altars for other gods on the Mount of Olives across from the Tabernacle of the Lord. Could this man serve in your church? (1 Kin. 11)

This man conceived twins by his daughter-in-law, who had posed as a prostitute, and after the act admitted she had been more righteous than he. Could this man serve in your church? (Gen. 38)

Lot and his daughters - Gentileschi

This man pretended to be his brother, so that his aging father would give him the blessing over his brother, whose right it was as the firstborn. Through deception he gained the blessing that started with Abraham and is passed down to us today. Could he serve in your church? (Gen. 27)

This man, after seeing historic miracles of God, led the anxious masses to take their gold, and fashion it into a calf and altar for the people to worship.
Could he serve in your church? (Ex. 32)

This man spent three years walking naked and barefoot through Egypt and Ethiopia as a sign to the peoples of those nations. Could he serve in your church? (Is. 20)

This man, after having spent three years walking with Jesus, denied knowing Him publicly three times. Could he serve in your church? (Matt. 26)

Jan 4, 2012

Just a year ago, Victor Hugo Perez Vargas was a leader in Peru’s vast but secretive occult movement. His strange ability to curse people and cause accidents seemed to be increasing. He was being mentored by a well-known satanist master and he attended witchcraft conferences.

But today you can find Victor sitting on the front row of a Pentecostal church in Tarapoto, Peru, with his wife, Deili. He loves to worship God with his hands raised, he frequently goes to the church altar for prayer and his face glows with a bright smile. “Jesus is my Lord today,” Victor says. “The power of the devil cannot be compared to the power of the true God.”

“These satanists want to take over the nation of Peru. The witches come here because there was so much blood sacrifice during the Inca times.” –Teresa Gomez

Victor’s transformation showed me how the Holy Spirit is working in Peru, where occultism has been a tradition ever since ancient Incas sacrificed children on altars to their sun god. Today, occultists from Africa, Europe and the United States attend witchcraft gatherings in Peru because they consider the country a central power center for New Age energy.

Victor, who is 36, was drawn into this occultism as a teenager in the city of Moyobamba, where friends convinced him to have sex with dogs in order to receive supernatural power. Witches told him to do this so he could hear better and see in the spiritual realm. After the perverse initiation rites, he began to hear voices—and he discovered his ability to kill people with his words.

“I didn’t know anything about God,” Victor told me. “I really didn’t understand the devil was using me. I just thought I had a special power.”

One man he cursed had a car accident and ended up with a crushed skull. Another man had a motorcycle crash and died six months later. “Every time I cursed people they would suffer in a terrible way. They wouldn’t just die immediately,” he told me in an interview last Sunday.

Victor eventually moved to Tarapoto, located in north central Peru, and began living with his girlfriend Deili. But she struggled in the relationship because he often flew into fits of rage and sometimes abused her. “When I realized he could kill people with his curses I wanted to break up with him, but something prevented me from leaving,” Deili said.

Deili grew more fearful as Victor climbed higher in the occult heirarchy. He participated in animal sacrifices and went to Cerro de Oso, a high mountain near Tarapoto, to receive satanic authority over the city. He was working to become an occultic master.
Because Victor feared his wife would leave him, he tricked her into participating in a blood covenant, asking demonic forces to track her. She began to feel tormented by ghostly spiritual forces and contemplated suicide often. She even felt unseen powers pushing her to cut her wrists.

All this terror culminated one evening when a group of intercessors from Mision Cristiano Esmirna, a Pentecostal church in Tarapoto, came to Deili’s house to pray for her. The demons that had a death grip on Deili began to manifest. Her eyes rolled back in her head and she became violent. Six people could not hold her on the ground.
Later, Teresa Gomez, wife of the pastor at the Esmirna church, came to Deili’s house and commanded spirits of death to leave her. Deili was miraculously delivered and gave her life to Christ.

Two weeks later, Teresa and her husband, David, prayed with Victor to receive Jesus, and they commanded the demons inside him to go. “When we told the spirits to leave, we could hear booming sounds on the ceiling,” Teresa explained. “There were strange pounding noises. It was like something was leaving the house.”

When Victor shared his testimony with me last Sunday, his eyes were moist with tears. “I came to the Lord because of love—Satan was taking my wife,” he said. “I felt this might be my last chance to know Christ. When I got on my knees and repented, I had a vision of the feet of Jesus.”

Observers say witchcraft is growing in Peru today, and human sacrifice still occurs—although it is rarely reported. (Several weeks ago, a girl’s dismembered body was found in Mayobamba.) Teresa Gomez believes this is all a last-ditch effort by satanic forces.
“These satanists want to take over the nation of Peru,” she says. “Witches come here because there was so much blood sacrifice during the Inca times.” She also noted that poor families, especially in jungle areas, have been known to sell their children to be sacrificed in occult rituals.

But Victor and Deili’s testimony is proof that the gospel of Christ is far more powerful than a network of witches who are trying to renew ancient satanic covenants. Says Victor: “I am not afraid of the devil. I know who I am walking with now.”

J. Lee Gradyis contributing editor of Charisma. You can follow him on Twitter at leegrady. Diego Caballero provided translation during Lee’s interview with Victor Hugo Vargas.

How eager Jesus was to restore broken fellowship with his apostles after the resurrection! Surely this is a sign of how eager he is to restore us when we have drifted (or bolted) away.
All the apostles had forsaken him. In the garden, at his most sorrowful hour, "They all left him and fled” (Mark 14:50).
Now he was raised. What would he say to those who had abandoned him? Three healing things:

To Mary at the tomb: “Go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” (John 20:17)

“Brothers!” “Your Father!” “Your God!” I am going now. You will come later. We are, and we will be, together. I forgive you. Our Father forgives you.

He finds the apostles, stands among them, and says, “Peace be with you.” He showed them his hands and his side — horrible reminders of what it cost him when they forsook him. And he says again. “Peace be with you.” (John 20:19–21)

“Peace!” Not “Shame!” I forgive you. I take you back. I entrust you with my mission: “As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” (John 20:21)

To Peter, three times: “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” And to his three positive answers, Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.” “Tend my sheep.” “Feed my sheep.” (John 21:15–17)

I have not given up on you, Peter. You are a shepherd of my sheep. Do you recall that I prayed for you? I told you what was coming. I never let you go. My command was a promise: “When you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.” (Luke 22:32)

Jesus was eager to repair the damage that had been done. Eager to forgive, restore, recommission. If you have forsaken him, let him down, offended him, take heart, he is not less eager to repair things with you. Seek his face. Ask him. Receive his grace.

January 2, 2012 – NORWAY – The inhabitants of Troms could hardly believe their eyes on the morning of New Year’s Eve, a very large amount, an estimated 10 to 20 tons of dead herring washed up on the beach, writes Northern Lights. Tromsø city is the ninth largest urban area in Norway by population. The city is warmer than most other places located on the same latitude, due to the warming effect of the Gulf Stream which originates at the tip of Florida. Various theories abound for the incident but no one knows for sure what’s happened in the popular hiking area in Nordreisa municipality. However, various theories have been tossed around, explains Jan-Petter Jorgensen (44), who stumbled upon the mass death in sight on the beach with his dog Molly. People say that something similar happened in the 80′s, and there is speculation among others on the river which flows into the ocean behind a promontory on the site, may have had something to do with it. Maybe the fish have been caught in a deprived oxygen environment, and then died of fresh water? Jorgensen estimates each individual fish to be of 100-150 grams, and that the total might be about up to 20 tons. Now he’s worried about what might happen if no one comes and removing carcasses. -Dagbladet-translated

contribution Mr. B, Roger Aak

In Matthew 13 we see Jesus move away from teaching the people directly, instead switching to the style we call parables. The term literally means to place two things side by side. It was a popular form of teaching among Jews and Arabs of the time, and when done well, was considered an excellent way to help cement an idea in the mind of the listener.

Jesus had a second reason in mind, one filled with both heaviness and mercy. In Matt. 13:13 Jesus said; "Therefore I speak unto them in parables: because they seeing see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand." That which a man hears and understands he is then responsible to obey. If he chooses to not hear or disobey, that man faces a greater judgment than the man that has not heard at all. Jesus knew the hardness of the peoples hearts, and chose to speak in parables. This was merciful, because those who don't have an open, truth-seeking heart, will never catch the truths of the parables. I'll expand more on judgment in a coming article, but let's focus on the mustard seed for a moment.

In Matt. 13:31-32, Jesus puts forth this parable to the people. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof."

One point to make is that the small size of the mustard seed can result in something the size of a tree. In Luke 17:6 Jesus says "If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you." So Jesus was pointing out that the spiritual seed of faith, though incredibly small, can result in a magnificent tree.

This tree then becomes a place where some can come and lodge and find food. The common view over the centuries for this parable was that the birds of the air are the members of the church. Yet if we look at the first parable in this chapter, (vs.3-8), we read the parable of the sower. In this parable, we encounter the same birds of the air (vs.4) and the explanation for the birds (vs. 19) which states that the birds of the air are the "wicked" or "wicked ones".

We can reason from this that Jesus was warning that the Church, built on faith, would eventually become of such size and structure that "the wicked ones" would come and take root in it. Sounds far-fetched? Look at the parable that follows the mustard seed.

"The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened." (Matt. 13:33) Leaven in the scriptures is always a symbol of sin. Unleavened bread represents holiness and purity, leavened bread represents unholiness and sin. So was Jesus saying the Kingdom of Heaven is like sin?

I don't think that was His intention. He was talking about the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, a Kingdom that would have perfection (Jesus Christ) as the ideal, but real, flawed human beings as the Body of Christ. Christians struggle because even though the spirit is redeemed, the physical body is not. We will always struggle against the flesh as long as we live. As Paul so eloquently wrote, "For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do, I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I." (Rom. 7:14-15) If you read the rest of Romans 7, you will find the encouragement of Paul, telling us that all will struggle with sin in the flesh. As long as I "delight in the law of God in the inner man" (Rom. 7:22), I am on the right track. Grace is a wonderful thing.

We are all part of the Body of Christ

So what should we think about these birds of the air (wicked ones) in the church? First, don't assume that everyone you meet in your church is a Christian. Many are not. Possibly most of them are not. Secondly, we must acknowledge that we as Christians face real spiritual warfare every single day. The only days off are the days when we aren't pressing ahead for the cause of Christ. Third, don't expect the churches to welcome with open arms everything the Lord has commanded. Men are easily swayed by a little power, and it should not surprise us when individuals wanting to help the church are rejected by those in power. Remember, the birds of the air are in the branches. We face resistance to God's will, not just in our own body, but within the structure of each individual church itself.

Jesus was warning in the parables that the work of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth would be one that has a holy Savior, a holy scripture, but a less than holy body of believers. Our necessity in understanding this is to plead for God's help and intervention at all time. There is a story about an unrighteous judge and an old woman pleading for help (Luke 18:1-8), but we will leave that one for another day.

I'm going to tell you a story. Are you sitting comfortably? Right, then I'll begin.

You don't want to run into Xenu in a dark alley

Once upon a time (75 million years ago to be more precise) there was an alien galactic ruler named Xenu. Xenu was in charge of all the planets in this part of the galaxy including our own planet Earth, except in those days it was called Teegeeack.

Now Xenu had a problem. All of the 76 planets he controlled were overpopulated. Each planet had on average 178 billion people. He wanted to get rid of all the overpopulation so he had a plan.

Xenu took over complete control with the help of renegades to defeat the good people and the Loyal Officers. Then with the help of psychiatrists he called in billions of people for income tax inspections where they were instead given injections of alcohol and glycol mixed to paralyse them. Then they were put into space planes that looked exactly like DC8s (except they had rocket motors instead of propellers).

These DC8 space planes then flew to planet Earth where the paralysed people were stacked around the bases of volcanoes in their hundreds of billions. When they had finished stacking them around then H-bombs were lowered into the volcanoes. Xenu then detonated all the H-bombs at the same time and everyone was killed.

John Travolta channeling Xenu in the disastrous Battleship Earth

The story doesn't end there though. Since everyone has a soul (called a "thetan" in this story) then you have to trick souls into not coming back again. So while the hundreds of billions of souls were being blown around by the nuclear winds he had special electronic traps that caught all the souls in electronic beams (the electronic beams were sticky like fly-paper).

After he had captured all these souls he had them packed into boxes and taken to a few huge cinemas. There all the souls had to spend days watching special 3D motion pictures that told them what life should be like and many confusing things. In this film they were shown false pictures and told they were God, The Devil and Christ. In the story this process is called "implanting".

When the films ended and the souls left the cinema these souls started to stick together because since they had all seen the same film they thought they were the same people. They clustered in groups of a few thousand. Now because there were only a few living bodies left they stayed as clusters and inhabited these bodies.

As for Xenu, the Loyal Officers finally overthrew him and they locked him away in a mountain on one of the planets. He is kept in by a force-field powered by an eternal battery and Xenu is still alive today.

That is the end of the story. And so today everyone is full of these clusters of souls called "body thetans". And if we are to be a free soul then we have to remove all these "body thetans" and pay lots of money to do so. And the only reason people believe in God and Christ was because it was in the film their body thetans saw 75 million years ago.

original Hubbard letter for OT III

Well what did you think of that story?

What? You thought it was a stupid story?

Well so do we. However, this story is the core belief in the religion known as Scientology.* If people knew about this story then most people would never get involved in it. This story is told to you when you reach one of their secret levels called OT III. After that you are supposed to telepathically communicate with these body thetans to make them go away. You have to pay a lot of money to get to this level and do this (or you have to work very hard for the organisation on extremely low pay for many years).

We are telling you this story as a warning. If you become involved with Scientology then we would like you to do so with your eyes open and fully aware of the sort of material it contains.

Most of the Scientologists who work in their Dianetics* centres and so called "Churches" of Scientology do not know this story since they are not allowed to hear it until they reach the secret "upper" levels of Scientology. It may take them many years before they reach this level if they ever do. The ones who do know it are forced to keep it a secret and not tell it to those people who are joining Scientology.
Part of the first page of the secret OT III document in L. Ron Hubbard's own handwriting

Now you have read this you know their big secret. Don't let us put you off joining though.

* Dianetics and Scientology are trademarks of the Religious Technology Centre. This document is not connected with that organisation in any way.

This is a brief examination of the term "mark" as used in Revelation. My compelling interest here is for the reader to understand that the mark will not simply be a microchip or some type of nanotechnology, although that may be a component of it. The mark will be something clearly visible on those who receive it.

“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” (Rev. 13:16-17)

The Serpent encircling the Earth

Two things cannot be separated from our impressions of the coming anti-Christ; the mark of the Beast, and the number, 666 (Rev. 13:18). These two things have provoked both fascination and great fear in readers for centuries. What is clear about the mark is this; that it will be a visible etching or brand, something that can be clearly seen by others. Many have reasoned in recent decades that the growth of nanotechnology and the reduced size of microchips would mean that the mark would be something of this nature. While it is possible that the mark may include some advanced technology, the scripture uses the Greek word charagma, which means “imprint”, or “brand”, like what might be seen on a domesticated animal. Those who take the mark of the Beast take his “brand”.

In verse 17 we see that to do any transactions, you must either have the name of the Beast, the number of his name, or the mark. While we don’t know what the mark is yet, if one does not accept the symbol or mark that represents the Beast, the option will be available to take his name or the number of his name, 666, in a form similar to the mark.

It must also be said, that there is no clearer dividing line in history than between those who take the mark of the Beast and those who don’t. Those who take the mark will live, do business, and continue for a short time. However they will eventually be subject to the wrath of God (Rev. 14:9-11) which includes being tormented with fire and brimstone forever. Those who reject the mark will be slain, but spend eternity with the Lord. (Rev. 12:11, 17, 13:15) It is likely that the mark of the Beast is a symbol that is already in use around the world today.

The mark has parallels in scripture. In Ezek. 9:3-7 the Lord has an angel “mark” the foreheads of all those who “sigh” and “cry” over the evil that is done in in Jerusalem and the Temple. Here the mark was the Hebrew letter “tau”, which looks like a cross.

The Tau

It's further clear from the scriptures that a command goes out to the whole world to take the mark. If someone does not take the mark, then "no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." (Rev. 13:17)

All will be given a choice. Take the mark, or the name, or the number. If you don't, you won't be able to buy or sell. You won't even exist in the new world order to come. Now some will obviously resist. This is in Rev. 13:7, where it is written "And it was given unto him to make war with the saints (holy ones/faithful), and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations." Further we read that "all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb, slain from the foundation of the world." (Rev. 13:8) So the only ones that will resist worshipping this beast are those whose names are written in the Book of Life. That is those believers who don't fall prey to the "great delusion" (2 Thes. 2:11) or the "powers, signs and lying wonders" (2 Thes. 2:9).

The Ourobouros

We also know the result of the resistance by believers. We see them "under the altar (in heaven) the souls of them that were slain for the Word of God, and for the testimony that they held." (Rev. 6:9)

Now it does seem reasonable that some escape this decision. Those are seen judged by Jesus Christ in Matt. 25:31-46. This is known as the judgment of the sheep and goats. While being called "sheep" has taken on a negative connotation in recent times, especially on the internet, it will be the difference between heaven and hell in this judgment that happens after the Battle at Armageddon. In short, the key to this judgment is those who obviously did not take the mark, but did make a choice. They chose to show mercy to the Lord's "brethren" (vs. 40). They did this by providing water to the thirsty, food to the hungry, clothes to the naked, and visiting the Lord's brethren in prison. (vs. 35-36)

The Last Judgment by Giotto

So the mark of the beast becomes a dividing line for all humanity. Those who take it, continue on in their lives for a short period of time. Those who don't go into prison or worse, are killed for their refusal. For those who take the mark, they will receive one of the vial judgments (Rev. 16:2) that will cause a "noisome and grievous sore", which is old english for a really painful wound or ulcer on the mark.

A final promise to those who refuse the mark is found in Rev. 20:4. In this we learn that they "lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years".

The point of this is to show that even though technology in genetics, nanotech and microchips may actually have the power to alter the human species in myriad ways, the mark of the beast will not be slipped past us in the water supply or sprayed overhead in the air, or given in a vaccination. It will be a choice that each individual will have to make. A choice that affects the eternal destiny of each person. Be prepared to make the right choice.